In France, where EDC began, EDC faced a lingering, disorderly death last week. Its demise was an agony, for in choosing to resist an ideal and reject a safeguard, the French Assembly brimmed over with the kind of patriotism it so often summons up at moments when patriotism can only be negative.
After having kept everyone waiting two years, Frenchmen found themselves alone, and many took pride in the fact. They felt a semi-righteous anger, as if everybody else was to blame for putting France on the spot, for failing to understand that EDC really never had a...
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